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I am planning a six week trip with my best mate to venezuela in february. The trip is a bit of a compromise - I get to organise a bushcraft filled two weeks of jungle trips/native village visiting/wilderness trekking/bushcraft learning, and he organises the rest..........4 weeks of...

Which family of mammals have four toes up front and five in the rear? Rodents

Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium- NOT GIANT HOGWEED) is edible.......indeed i tried it for the first time yesterday.............. The young shoots should be picked, before or just after the leaves have begun to unfurl......they can be cooked in pan with a knob of butter untill tender, bout 6-10...

Thinking of Rachels family and Ray at this sad time..... I had the pleasure of meeting Rachel and she was a gem. I also know that she was the backbone of Woodlore and without her, so many of us would not have taken the bushcraft road that we all love so much. We owe alot to her......... She...

As far as I am aware, harebell is the common name for Campanula rotundifolia, which is also called the scottish blue bell. It has very thin stems, delicate purple bell shaped flowers, and seems to like heather moors. see...

I'll do a brownlee visit...... tried to get to the last one and make my debut, but couldnt make it....any dates been suggested yet....where is brownlee again? steven

my number one campfire dish....(had it last night while out)....... a litle oil in a pan, olive the best.... add chopped sweet potato, a clove of garlic, red onion and cook till potato almost fully soft. add sliced chorizo sausage....mmmmmn... cook a couple of minutes.......add a...

wood sorrel (oxalis acetosella, without a field book to hand) contains oxalic acid, and it is recommended that you dont eat a whole lot of it because of is acid content......fair enough, you would be too well if you just drank vinegar all day, but in moderation...fine. I like to put it in salads...

I saw one last week near the cairngorms in scotland....near newtonmore....pretty damn rare up there!!!! stevo

arrived today...... looks great, trying it out this weekend near peebles near edinburgh!! thanks john steven

paypal sent john, I await in anticipation! legend, steven

For me the taste is like disolving half a tea spoon of sugar in a litre of cold water, thats almost what it is anyway....just like water, but with a slight taste of the wilds....if that helps.....em....probably not!! stevo

I find birch bark not all that great as a tinder for use with embers.....not fiberous enough...it dont really smoulder that well either....its great once its going and its good to add to a small flame to enlarge it but........use something like honeysuckle bark, juniper bark, cedar bark, for the...

Completed an emergency aid course for the outdoors last week.... Current medical theory states that you should not 'actively re-warm' a patient.......prevent the casualty from getting any colder.....remove wet clothes, get them into dry ones, 'warm not hot' drinks are good....get them into a...

I'll second that......and you wont believe this, but I was just practicing in my garage with sycamore!! Sycamore.......old faithful! well done stevo

I was watching an old "world of Survival" mears episode last knight repeated on UKTV Documentary...He's always on there by the way!! It was one on the arctic.....saw the inuit fishing spear used.....looked really cool......I've tried to make things similar with little luck.....I cant get the...

The magazine is great....... Personal good point.... Great to have some bushcraft philosophy in the form of T. J Elpel's article....not just a list of skills!! I think bushcraft needs to develop its theory and philosophy more....it can be an abstract term! What I'd like to see in...

I would also like to know!! anyone? cheers

Thats the game.....cheers falling rain!! stevo

English would be laburnum